By Ephraim Njenga via fb
WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
What is the rationale or economic sense of spending KShs 59 on the JKIA-Uhuru Highway-Rironi road project when we can use that money on the more sustainable Nairobi Commuter Light Rail project
The 31.6 kilometres Addis Ababa Light Rail project cost US$ 475 Million which is equivalent to KShs 48 billion at today’s exchange rate. The double track electrified rail took three years to complete. The trains move at a max speed of 70 km/hr with each train carrying 286 passengers equivalent to 8 33 passenger buses.
There has been many stories about the Nairobi commuter rail project. Costs have even been estimated at a mere KShs 25 Billion. Why waste KShs 59 billion on a road that will be clogged a few years after its construction? Haven’t we learnt anything from the Thika Highway which is already congested less than five years after its construction?
It is sad that a high impact project like this cannot take shape because leaders are still looking for the highest tender bribes. Our neighbours implement such projects and start enjoying benefits while we are still doing talkshops.
This is how we are losing competitiveness and our once revered leadership role in the region. The cancer of corrupt and incompetent leadership must be tackled fast.
Anonymous says
WHITE MONOPOLY CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT LOOTING THE LOCAL RESOURCES while being assisted by the local ruling thieves! PERIOD!
Charles Taylor’s genocide in Liberia, the Rwanda genocide, the removal of Gaddafi in Libya, the invasion of Iraq and the killing of Saddam Hussein, the Syrian war—–>> have ALL been about FORCEFUL LOOTING OF THOSE COUNTRIES’ OIL AND OTHER LOCAL NATURAL RESOURCES:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774521472/if-u-s-takes-syrian-oil-it-may-violate-international-laws-against-pillage
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“We’re keeping the oil — remember that,” Trump declared on Monday at a gathering of police chiefs in Chicago. “We want to keep the oil. Forty-five million dollars a month? Keep the oil. We’ve secured the oil.”
Trump was referring to oil fields in Syria’s Deir el-Zour province that Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces wrested from Islamic State insurgents in 2017. The area holds nearly three-quarters of Syria’s oil and gas reserves, whose production has plummeted over the past decade by more than 90%. Islamic State fighters had earlier generated substantial revenues from other oil fields farther north through smuggling operations into neighboring Turkey.
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MONOPOLY CAPITALISM promotes poverty for the 99.9% of any targeted country’s citizens! As the poor are slaughtered by the armed elite forces, the looting of oil and other natural resources GOES ON NON-STOP!
Anonymous says
‘Gorbachev of Pakistan must go!’ Radical opposition cleric gives ‘puppet’ PM Khan 2 days to resign amid massive protest (VIDEOS)
Anonymous says
Donald Trump has dropped a truth bomb, and admitted he’s planning to keep troops in Syria because he wants the country’s oil.
This kind of honesty threatens the usual world order where everyone accuses the US of fighting wars for oil, and Washington denies it, and takes the oil anyway.
ICYMI looks at what else could happen when leaders start accidentally telling the truth.
Anonymous says
Rift valleys leaders converge in Nairobi, petition the president to halt Mau evictionsSolution to Mau Forest eviction will only be solved by violence alone.
Anonymous says
WHY can’t the DP William Ruto and his low IQ ATTACK DOGS UNDERSTAND THAT without trees, Kenya will be a rainless DESERT? Why can’t the same imbeciles also understand that THE BUILDING OF DAMS ON EVERY RIVER IN KENYA HAS THE VERY SAME EFFECTS AS DESTROYING THE RAIN FORESTS IN KENYA?
WHAT KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE ADVISING THE MORONS??